The prostitution system in ancient China actually originated from the marriage and family system practiced by the whole society. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Engels once said: "**** is a necessary supplement to autocracy (translated as 'monogamy' in the past)." In fact, for China, it is not just a question of "supplementation", but fundamentally two twin systems that are symbiotic, mutually reinforcing, and indispensable.

It is a limited freedom.

In ancient times, for men, the women in the world were nothing more than divided into 5 types, and each had its own use, which was distinct, performed its own duties, and complemented each other.

The first is the wife. It is the "child mother" and "virtuous helper" that Ming Media is marrying, responsible for giving birth to children, managing housework, and managing little wives and slaves.

Therefore, the conditions for a good wife must be in order: 1. The right family. In order to ensure that the wife has the corresponding ability to run the house, so that the current marriage and family can become a "match made in heaven", and maintain the current social status of men; 2. Ability to reproduce. In order to ensure that men can pass on their ancestry, and that men's families can survive; 3. Chastity is immaculate. in order to ensure the purity of the blood of the male offspring; The family background is innocent, and there are no "family history problems"; 4. Bow your head to the ear. In order to maintain the patriarchal family system.

But it is not difficult to see here that for a wife, many characteristics of a normal woman are not only unnecessary, but also not talented:

Young and beautiful are not only unnecessary, but it is easy to "go to Qin and Twilight", "invite disasters and cause trouble", and even "red apricots out of the wall", even big names like Zhuge Liang say: An ugly wife is a blessing; Kung fu in bed is not necessary, it is not necessary to be able to give birth to a child, especially to give birth to a son, is the real ability, is the real merit, otherwise, once the wife is horny, the husband will not be a husband, and the family will not be a home; It is even more unnecessary to have rich feelings, because except for housework, men will not talk about anything with their wives at all, otherwise, the "pillow wind" will become a "curse".

So, don't men need these feminine traits? No, it's just because there's a second kind of woman that's preparing.

Concubines, little wives, are specially married or bought by men to supplement the shortcomings of their main wives. Their conditions are: 1. Young and beautiful, in order to meet the psychological needs of men for "tender as green branches", "beautiful and delicious" and "golden house hidden and delicate"; 2. The martial arts in bed are strong, and they are close at hand, they are recruited, they can fight, and they can "flourish" in battle, so as to meet the sexual life requirements of men in daily life; 3. Coquettish, jealous, but in moderation, obey orders, in order to meet the needs of men to "play women" (not just ****).

However, concubines must also have the shortcomings of concubines. They are generally from poor backgrounds and lack cultural upbringing, and often can only go to bed to play, but they are not elegant. Moreover, in the closed small-scale peasant economy and rural society, no matter how rich a man is, it is difficult to "train" a young wife who also grew up in the countryside to become a talented woman. In particular, men can't really play any emotional games with them, because after all, they are in marriage, in the family, if they play a few wives infighting, or if they are more serious with their eldest wives, wouldn't they be on fire in the backyard and ask for their own hardships?

The third type of woman is the man's maidservant.

They were (semi-)female slaves who were mainly engaged in manual labour. Although they are not the inevitable **** objects of men, if men are willing, they can also do that, as long as they go through a "house" procedure in advance or afterwards, and promote the maid to a little wife. Some men don't even want to take the house, so they do it half rape and half seduction. As long as there is no death, society will not have a temper, because it is a man's own domestic matter. Of course, maids tend to be more rude, so there are fewer men who do this.

The fourth type of woman is the nun.

They generally don't have anything to do with men, but because of this, they are really just "chastity vases" in male society, so that men can feel that this world is so complete, after all, there are still some holy women who are like jade, for us to worship, for us to stimulate sexual fantasies, and sometimes, for us to steal.

The fifth type of woman is a prostitute.

Their social function, for low-class men, is "public toilets", so what serves them are low-class prostitutes, "fighting cannons"; For middle-class men, middle-level prostitutes play the role of "the woman next door", so that such men can taste the taste of cheating in their reasonable and legal manner, and pass the addiction of adultery; For upper-class men, high-end prostitutes are their "dream lovers".

Therefore, when scholars and doctors went to brothels, they were generally "prostitutes", not just low-class men. "Prostitution" includes not only one-on-one play, but also a group of men who go to a brothel together, or meet to play together in a brothel; It also included the use of brothels and prostitutes for general socialization among scholars and doctors.

In order to conform to such a social function and maintain such a social role and social status, prostitutes are strictly trained and constantly screened out from an early age. Those who are eliminated halfway can only stay in a certain ladder grid in the lower or middle floor, and only those prostitutes who meet the four major needs of upper men for socialization, leisure, flirting, and **** can climb to the top floor of the green building. In this way, the hierarchy of prostitutes is actually consistent with the hierarchy of men in society: poor men can only go to the "liao" (village-like) prostitutes in the fireworks alley to find those miserable and rotten prostitutes; Well-off men can go to some brothel "courtyards" (like a home) with heads and faces, and find prostitutes who resemble small jasper; Decent men, on the other hand, went to places where they could reach the "upstairs" (places of wealth and prominence) and sought out high-end prostitutes who were often far superior to their wives and concubines.

In this way, the "Qinglou Woman" became the most talented, gentle, empathetic, and socially adept woman among the women in the world at that time, and became the only woman who could attract the emotions of scholars. Although in the actual social system, they were still inferior to wives and concubines, but in the few social activities at that time, their status was far higher than that of wives and concubines.

In this way, the literati and scholars are often confused, forgetting or deliberately ignoring the "laughing" nature of the Qinglou women, and only caring about putting their "remaining emotions" into the "prostitutes", constantly elevating, beautifying, and sacralizing the Qinglou women. As a result, there are so many works in the history of ancient Chinese literature that praise prostitutes, as well as works that are said to have been written by prostitutes.

In fact, this is just a psychological need of scholars. They themselves are talented people, so the women they make friends with must also be talented women, otherwise they will be insulted, they will not be able to explain why they are infatuated with Qinglou, they will expose their kind of pity that although they have a group of wives and concubines, they have no heart and no love, and even have doubts about the entire marriage and family system of the society - that is the sin of killing the head!

It is better to make up a wonderful illusion by yourself, hide in it and enjoy yourself, even if you secretly process or even forge some "Qinglou literature", even if you are pouted by those "beautiful women" who "get what you pay for", they all endure, admit it, and pretend to forget. As a result, in the history of ancient Chinese literature, starting from the earlier "Goddess Fu", men's "dream literature" reached its peak in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai"; The "**** literature" of the scholar doctor has also reached its peak from prostitute poems to "Du Shi Niang" and the like; And "impotence literature" was finally completed in "Dream of Red Mansions".

It has to be said that this is a rather distorted and deformed social formation.

Such a tight web of social roles is undoubtedly a suffocation for women. In ancient China, no matter how capable a woman is, at best, she only has these 5 futures.

The happiest woman is the "woman", that is, the wife who is marrying as a Ming media. No matter how poor the other party is, he is much stronger than any of the characters below. Therefore, in the wives' hatred of prostitutes, it is not entirely because the prostitutes destroy their families, as the wives themselves say, but implicit in a deep-seated and unforgettable contempt, so they are particularly hateful. This is just like the emperor Lao Tzu and his dogs have a deep hatred for "committing rebellion" because of their infinite contempt for the grass people.

For women who are relatively poor in all aspects, the best result is just to act as a concubine. Although the identity and status of the concubine are lower than those of the wife, they are higher than the maid. In particular, after all, the concubine has a home, a stable life, and a glimmer of hope: as long as she is favored by the master, her actual status and treatment will not be much lower than that of her wife; If you are lucky enough to encounter the opportunity of the death of your eldest wife, you are likely to rise to the status of a wife.

Those who have to be handmaidens are, of course, those women at the bottom. They sell themselves or semi-sell themselves, and the best result is only for the master to decide to marry himself to a manservant of the same status and become a wife. It's not uncommon for a girl to be resold by her owner, or even sold to a low-level prostitute. Therefore, if the maid is "" by the master; If there is a chance to become a little wife, then most people will only feel that they are lucky to have three lives, and it is unlikely that there will be a "happy child". If none of the above three types of people can do it or are unwilling to do it, then a woman has only two ways to go: either become a prostitute or become a nun. However, the capacity of the nunnery is very limited after all, and the material life is worse than that of the worst prostitutes, so being a prostitute is often a better choice.

So far, it's all about the popular science about the status of women in ancient times.

From here, there's something different about the world.

Due to the existence of such a rebellious profession as a martial artist, women naturally have the sixth, seventh, and even eighth ways to go, such as talented women, art girls, chivalrous women, and so on.

Even if they are the same prostitutes, there are different levels, among which there is a kind of prostitute named 'Qingqi', that is, the common saying 'selling art does not sell one', which is a special prostitute that will appear when the prostitution system develops to a certain extent, they will meet the needs of scholars and doctors for talented women, but always maintain a casual attitude, not overly enthusiastic, always elegant and calm.

It can be said that in this world, the one who has done this business to the extreme is Tianxiang Pavilion.

Tianxiang Pavilion, one of the six sects, is a sect composed almost entirely of 'Qingqi'.

The sect is all women, and girls with outstanding qualifications are selected from an early age to be trained, and a variety of skills are awarded, including sword dance, piano art, painting, poetry, dance, etc., and each generation receives 100 people, but less than 10 people are teachers.

The woman who came out of the school can be described as both talented.

After they were born from the sect, they were assigned to the basic industries of the sect, as geisha, composing music and playing piano or dancing for guests, and selling their talents as commodities to dignitaries and dignitaries in return for the cultivation of the sect over the years.

Of course, Tianxiang Pavilion never forced its disciples to stay in various music workshops, and after they stayed for three years, they could leave and choose to leave the sect and wander the rivers and lakes alone, or marry and have children, and stay in the sect.

It's just that because the women of Tianxiang Pavilion are used to seeing men, all kinds and all kinds, they have already seen through the red dust, and the ultimate destination is to stay in the master, teach the next generation of disciples, and compose music and practice swords on weekdays...... They have senior sisters and sisters as each other's companions, but they don't feel lonely, why do they need to get married, often in the end, the lilies bloom, so that how many longing men silently cry and mourn.

In the current Jinling, there is the foundation of Tianxiang Pavilion.

Named "Tianle Fang", there are geisha playing music and piano all the year round, but as one of the grassroots industries, and there are only less than ten disciples of Tianxiang Pavilion who have been out of the school, although the internal women are excellent, but most of them are piano girls who have not been able to come out of the school, which is more than a step worse than the daughter of Tianxiang Pavilion.

"But that, just half a month ago, Tianxiang Pavilion sent three disciples to Tianle Fang, and now, we can be regarded as having eyes and ears!"

ps: Duanzi: Do you know what Ding Ding should be called when he is coated with wind oil essence?

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